Stanimir Panayotov

Stanimir Panayotov is research fellow at the Department of Literary Theory, Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Logic, Ethics and Aesthetics, Sofia University (2023–2026). He completed his PhD in Comparative Gender Studies at the Central European University, Budapest (2020). Previously, he taught philosophy and cultural studies (Tyumen, 2021–2023), was postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Sofia (2020–2021), and taught various courses in humanities in Budapest, Jerusalem, Skopje and Sofia. His most recent publications are as editor of O-Zone: An Ecology of Objects (punctum books, 2026), and as co-editor of Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity (Routledge, 2024) and Black Metal Rainbows (PM Press, 2023). Since 2020, he is editor and initiator of Zlatomir Zlatanov’s publications, and has published his English translations of Zlatanov in Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism and Translation and Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender, and Culture. He has translated from English, Macedonian and Serbian/Croatian (Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Peter Burger, McKenzie Wark, Mihajlo Markovic, etc.), as well as poetry and prose from and into English, Bulgarian and Macedonian (e.g. Thomas Ligotti, Diamanda Gallas, Adrienne Rich, Hristina Pandzharidis, Maria Virhov, Ilinka Crvenkovska, etc.). Panayotov has published three books of poetry: God vs F31 (Ars/Scribens, 2011; Black Flamingo, 2020); Axiom and Grief (Metheor, 2020); Dark Becomings (transversal texts, 2024, in English, with Artan Sadiku). He is also the co-author of the award-winning radio play Transferatu (Bulgarian National Radio, 2006), and is currently writing up a play on John Balance, to be published in 2025.

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